Our Team

Tara A. Mackay

Partner

	Direct: 416.865.7528 Office: Toronto Fax: 416.865.7380 Email: tmackay@torys.com

	Tara is a member of the Infrastructure and Energy Practice.

Practice

Tara Mackay’s practice focuses on corporate and commercial transactions, with a particular emphasis on public-private partnerships (PPP) and alternative financing and procurement (AFP). Tara represents public authorities, private sector proponents, construction contractors, service providers and lenders in all aspects of the implementation of large-scale public infrastructure projects and other major capital projects.

Recognitions

Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, the Client's Guide 2011—Associate to watch in PPP and infrastructure

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2012—Leading lawyer in project finance law

Transactions

Tara has recently been involved in representing

Infrastructure Ontario and Niagara Health System as the public authorities in the $759 million AFP transaction to design, build, finance and maintain a new acute care hospital and cancer centre in St. Catharines, Ontario
Laing O’Rourke as construction contractor to Village Infrastructure Partners, a shortlisted proponent for the Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Athletes' Village AFP Project in Toronto, Ontario
Lenders to InfraNetComm, a shortlisted proponent for the Maritime Radio Communications Systems PPP project, which will deliver an integrated public safety radio communication system across New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Windsor Essex Mobility Group (ACS Infrastructure Canada/ Acciona Concessions Canada/ Fluor Canada Limited) as the successful proponent in the $1.4 billion AFP transaction to design, build, finance and maintain a new 11 kilometre parkway near Windsor, Ontario
Women's College Partnership (Bilfinger Berger Project Investments) as the successful proponent in the $460 million AFP transaction to design, build, finance and maintain the redevelopment of the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Ontario

Selected Publications and Presentations

3rd Structuring and Negotiating Public-Private Partnerships
Presenter, Toronto | May 11, 2011

2nd Structuring and Negotiating Public-Private Partnerships
Presenter, Toronto | May 27, 2010

Structuring and Negotiating Public-Private Partnerships
Presenter, Toronto | May 28, 2009

Public-Private Partnerships and Alternative Finance and Procurement Programs
Co-author, Lexpert's Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada | April 20, 2006

Putting Partnership First
Co-author, Managing Partner Magazine | November 25, 2005

Selected Media highlights

April 20, 2011: Torys announces our new partners

March 21, 2011: Chambers Global 2011 recognizes four of Torys' lawyers as among Canada's top P3 and infrastructure practitioners

June 21, 2010: Torys congratulates Infrastructure Ontario's involvement in North Bay Regional Health Centre

March 5, 2010: Niagara Health System project financing wins North American Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year

Practice Areas and Industry Groups

Infrastructure and Energy Project Development and Finance Public-Private Partnerships

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2002

Education

LLB, 2000
Osgoode Hall Law School